Support



Patented May 26, 1931 c:

UNITED STATES PAUL N. ELDERKIN, or Los ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Y SUPPORT Application inea March 5, 1929. 'serial No. 344,53s.

This invention relates to supports, standards or racks for various purposes, such as for supporting instruments of different kinds, music, trays and other objects andarticles,

and has for its object to provide an improved support or the like which may be readily and conveniently put together or assembled and taken apart, thus rendering it adaptable for being quickly set up and quickly reduced to knocked-down form for shipment or storage. The invent-ion has for its further object to provide a device of this character, which will be superior in point of relative simplicity and inexpensiveness of construction, taken in conjunction with durability,positiveness and reliability in use, compactness in form and general superiority in efficiency and serviceability.

With the above and other objects in view,

the invention consists in the new and useful provision, formation, combination, association and relative arrangement of parts, members and features, all as hereinafter described, shown in the drawings and in claim.

In the drawings: Y

Fig. 1 is a side elevatio-n of a support embodying the invention, the same being shown as utilized for carrying an instrument of certain type; f

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional.

view of the upper portion of the showing in Figure l; Y

Fig-3 is a detail transverse sectional view taken upon the line 3-3 of Figure 1 looking in the direction of the appended arrows ,f

Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail vertical elevation of the lower portion of the showing in Figure 1, parts being in elevation; and

Fig. 5 is an enlarged fragmentary perspective view of certain features shown in Figures 3 and 4.

Corresponding parts in all figures are des- Y ignated by the same reference characters.

Referring with particularity to the drawings, I have sho-wn in Figure 1 a support or pedestal or easel or stand having an upright elongated body portion 6, preferably tubular, and having separable feet or legs 7 to 50 be appliedto said upright body portion and finallypointed out detached therefrom, at will, 8 designating quickly detachable means for maintaining the feet or legs 7 and the upright body meinber 6' in assembled relation.

At its upper end, theiipright support 6 is".

adapted to carry an instrument or other load or burden 9, and to this end pivotal connections 10 are shown as provided, whereby the load 9 may be swunginto different angul'ar relations.

Y The lower end of the tubular body` portion 6 may be surrounded byV a ferrule, band or ring 11 having a constricting or reinforcing action upon the upright; and each of the legs 7 has a shank portion'a adapted to be inserted upwardly within the lower open end of the tubular body portion 6, each of such shank portions being preferably segmental and when grouped together, three of same. being shown in the drawings, providing an internal bore or recess within which the quickly detachable means 8 may be introduced, the latter'preferably comprising a tapered conical or conoidal plug or wedge, and the shanks 7a when in assembled relation, providing a complementary upwardly and inwardly inclined wall portion for the bore within which the plug or wedge lits, frictionally engaging the outer surfaces of, the shanks with the inenr surface of the tubular upright Gand holding the shanks wedged into such tubular supportV with the legs radiating from the lower end of the support and servingY to sustain the member 6 in upright position. The wedge 8 preferably is made of wood or similar material having a slight yield for proper wedge action; and the leo` shanks 7a may be shouldered at 7b to fit under the upright 6. Y

The wedge is readily inserted through the open space between the legs 7 and may bel readily withdrawn from position through such open space, beneath the support 6, and the shank and mainportions of the legs are Y in each unit'in angular relation one to the other, as shown. Y i

It is obvious that various changes and variations may be made in practicing the invention, without departing from the disclosure of thel drawings and from the foregoing description, all within the spirit of my invention.

Having thus disclosed my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

A device of the character described cornprising a standard, the lower end portion at least of which is hollow, a plurality of base members each inclusive of an upwardly directed shank portion of segmental crosssection for insertion into the lower end portion of said standard, the inner face of each shank portion being recessed and the recesses of the collective shank portions cooperating to provide an upwardly tapering opening through the collective shank portions when the latter are inserted within said standard, the wall of said upwardly tapering opening being circular and continuous circumferentially and also continuous throughout the length of said shank portions, and a tapered Wedge element for insertion into said tapered opening to spread said shank portions against the inner face of said standard.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification at Los Angeles, California, this 19th day of February, 1929.

PAUL N. ELDERKIN. 

